The adult thinking process in which every idea implies an opposite idea, and both the idea and its opposite can be integrated into a synthesis is referred to as

formal operational thought.
adaptive logic.
dialectical thought.
moral reasoning.


dialectical thought.

Psychology

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Wundt's early position on animal intelligence was that ____

a. ?any sensory capacity at all allowed for judgment and drawing of conscious inferences b. ?animals and humans differ only in the range of stimuli that they can detect c. ?human's erect stature makes smell and taste much less necessary than vision and audition for human adaptation to environments d. ?people have language; animals do not e. ?humans simply have more education than animals

Psychology

Researchers have identified structural correlates in the brains of adults for four of the Big Five personality traits. Which Big Five personality trait has not yet been correlated with a structure of the brain?

a. ?agreeableness b. ?openness c. ?neuroticism d. ?conscientiousness

Psychology

If you agree with the statements that "the conditions of your life are excellent" and that "so far you have gotten the important things you want in life," you

a. are high in life satisfaction. b. have achieved self-actualization. c. tend to be overly optimistic and somewhat naive. d. have a Type C personality.

Psychology

Recent research suggests that preschool children

a. understand only basic story structures. b. take on the feelings of characters in stories. c. show an adult-like level of inferences about mental states. d. have an interpretative understanding of human actions.

Psychology